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Mesoscale Discussion 1189

June 1, 200312 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2003, 9:25 PM CDT for 12 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2003, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 95 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Beckham County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Baylor County, TX, Knox County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 41 more	7 hr
Jun 1, 8:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Harper	65 min
Jun 1, 11:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 22 more	91 min
Jun 2, 12:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Garfield, Haskell and 25 more	63 min
Jun 2, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 34 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 2:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 16 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 2:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha	113 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cimarron	5 hr
Jun 1, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crosby and 24 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 51 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Crosby, Dawson, Ector and 18 more	116 min
Jun 1, 10:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 8 more	59 min
Jun 1, 11:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin and 5 more	87 min
Jun 1, 11:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Erath and 16 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 1:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche and 28 more	63 min
Jun 2, 11:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet, Cherokee and 34 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 39 more	6 hr
Jun 2, 2:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 35 more	117 min
Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 37 more	5 hr
Jun 2, 5:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 35 more	62 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.